March Chagall 7 July 1887- 1946
Marc Chagall was born on this day in 1887. This is 'Cow with Parasol', 1946.
Marc Chagall was born in Liozno, near Vitebsk, now in Belarus, on July 7 1887. In those days Vitebsk was a major cultural center. Chagall started studying painting with the local artist Yehuda Pen. Later Chagall founded a Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art and an Art School in Vitebsk.
Today would have been Marc Chagall’s 127th birthday. Chagall was a Russian-born artist who spent most of his life in Paris. His lyrical paintings of village scenes often depict his homeland and are conveyed with a sense of love and a touch of surrealism.
His famous work, “I and the Village” is currently on exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. The painting depicts his Hasidic community near Vitebsk, Russia and evokes harmony and life among the village peasants and animals living together. For more about the painting, visit MOMA.
Synopsis
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
Marc Zakharovich Chagall (/???ɡɑ?l/ sh?-GAHL;[3][nb 1] 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist.[4] An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.
Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's preeminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra.
Before World War I, he traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922.
He had two basic reputations, writes Lewis: as a pioneer of modernism and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism's "golden age" in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism". Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk."[5] "When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is".[6]
Contents
- 1 Early life and education
- 2 Art career
- 3 Art styles and techniques
- 4 Other types of art
- 5 Final years and death
- 6 Gallery
- 7 Legacy and influence
- 8 Exhibitions and tributes
- 9 See also
- 10 Notes
- 11 References
- 12 Bibliography
- 13 External linkshttps://chagal-vitebsk.com/
Teacher, Lecturer, Coach
4 年Marc Chagall was not only a highly talented painter, but also a mystic who enchanted us with his paintings.
Chief Curator at National Gallery of Armenia
7 年A great dreamer & a great master!!! We have two nice works of him